LETTER: Jonah Goldberg's outrageous column

Goldberg attacks the "Greatest Generation" as privileged spongers regarding Social Security "entitlements." Please remember that "The Greatest Generation" was a Tom Brokaw title and did not emanate from the young soldiers.

I was in the Korean War, but both my wife and I had relatives in World War II. I wonder if Goldberg would back up his column with the actual number of the "Greatest Generation" who never returned home, along with those who did return home, but died young from their wounds. None of these young Americans ever collected a cent of Social Security. And lets not forget all the ensuing wars since that time. How many of our bravest in those wars did not live to collect a dime of Social Security?

In fact, how many Americans have passed on without collecting or only collected for a few years? The money for our Social Security was taken out of our salary from the day we went to work. Often we needed it, and if we had been able to keep it and manage it ourselves we would be rich today. The U.S. government never contributed one cent to the program.

Our congressman have 67 paid holidays, three weeks vacation and unlimited sick days. They also receive grandiose salaries for what little work they perform, along with enormous pensions and unlimited health care. And yet they have the nerve to attack the working citizenry, steal from the Social Security fund, and then call it an entitlement.

Goldberg owes an apology to every American for his lack of knowledge on this subject. I also wonder if he would share his military service with us.